It’s been a while since we’ve heard much about the planned movie version of the hit videogame franchise Assassin’s Creed. The last news was that Frank Marshall was producing with Michael Fassbender attached to star. Now they may have found a director, as Twitch suggests 20th Century Fox is eyeing Daniel Espinosa to direct.
No deal has been signed, but talks are ongoing between the director and the studio. Espiona is best known in the states for Safe House and his international hit Easy Money (also known as Snabba Cash).
Assassin’s Creed follows a bartender who learns he comes from a long line of assassins. He is forced by a corporation to hunt down precious artifacts, while using a device that gives him all the skills and memories of his ancestors.
Assassin’s Creed is currently scheduled for a 2015 release, with the studio hoping to start shooting fairly soon.
It seems that Robert Zemeckis is hoping to To Reach For the Clouds, which is a 3D narrative remake of the hit documentary Man on Wire. The film already has someone in its sights for the lead role, with Joseph Gordon-Levitt being eyed to star, although he’s yet to be officially offered a deal.
It’s not too long until we’ll get to return to a felty world with Muppets Most Wanted, which is due in UK cinemas on 28th March 2014 (and a weeks earlier in the US). Ahead of that a new poster has been released, which sees the Muppets on top of the world, along with human stars Tina Fey, Ricky Gervais and Ty Burrell.
In what may be the biggest case of throwing the baby out with the bathwater in recent Hollywood memory, Quentin Tarantino has revealed he’s shelved what was likely to be his next movie, The Hateful Eight, after the script leaked. Normally this would be an annoyance but wouldn’t stop a film moving forward, but for Quentin it’s enough to get him to stop working on it as a movie.
Nowadays it’s often difficult to tell whether having Bruce Willis signed up a movie is a reason for excitement or whether it’s just notice that someone has reached his asking fee, irrespective of the quality of the movie. However Willis and Ambyr Childers have signed up to star in the sci-fi action-thriller Vice, according to 
It’s not too surprising that Disney’s planned sequel to Alice In Wonderland is now going by the title Through The Looking Glass, as while Tim Burton’s movie was technically a sequel to Lewis Carroll’s original tale, Look Glass was what the author’s follow-up was called.